The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-09
BLANKETS.
BLANKET-OLOGY.

ana Where FREE St. Slyly
seeks to sidle into it sideways,
Right there, on that corner,
is the large, irregular shaped
show-window of the
STAPLES DRY GOODS STORE.
Persons looking into that
corner window to-day will dis
cover unmistakable signs of
Midsummer lunacy.
Cords, solid cords of warm,
woody, winter Blankets.
In plain sight of the swelter-
ing, sweaty, sticky sufferers,
who blister in the blazing
August sunshine.
Blankets in August
(As out of place as blue poker chips in the
minister's sermon pocket)
Yes, Blankets in August,
and for sale too.
We bought last spring and
early this summer vast masses
Of blankets. We bought them
of men desperate to get rid of
them at any price.
AT time when prices had
as many ups and downs as a
hotel elevator boy.
$50 that now our store room looks as II a
Blanket dam had burst somewhere on the
Blankets)
We bought them for next
winters trade, and don't care
Observation-Disclosures whether
we sell a single pair before that
time.
But whim or freak says
Cry EN- now; bait the people
with Blankets at 20 per cent
discount, and see what they
will do about it.
30 here they are, right IN
your sight.
tAnd We wonder II you have our contempt
head, Ben FRANKLIN, who said 'never buy a
thing you don't want, because It is cheapJ
asst he himself didn't hang the dusty rafters
Of his mental garrett full of crochety rubbish,
cheap, mouldy and useless.)
One pile of these Blankets,
white and colored, you will see
are marked IS cents a pair.
And we'll just leave it with
you to say whether they are
cheap or not.
Next pile are SNOWFALL
Blankets, so called because
they grow in favor as fast as a
SNOWFALL grows by rolling on
the snow.
They are white, heavy, hon
est and big. Yes, almost as bis
as the lie the Boss-town Sun
day newspaper tells about it!
circulation.
Price now $500 pair.
Price next autumn $3.50 a
pair.
The next neighbor lot are
Gray Blankets, weighing 6 lbs
to the para noble blanket.
Price now $500 a pair.
Price next Fall $3.50 a pair
(An opportunity as rare and as important Il
catch on the fly as millionaire bride, by
remnant Department.
Then follows a two-case lot
of Winthrop White Blankets
broad, long and thick.
Price this week 81. so pair
Next Fall our price will bt
$500; no less.
glossy and fluffy" come:
next. A part case of Newport
Blankets left over from las
season. We opened them las
November at $500, later we
marked them down to $3.50
You may have what there are
left of them for $500 a pair.
CThey are big enough to cover the nine Judi
cial Jumbos Of the Y; s. Supreme Court, with
out crowding or kcking.)
Nextly, perts up a case o
Colored Blankets, Gray, 8 lbs
weight to the pair, 81 inche!
wide, and long enough to blan
ket a six-footer, toes and nose
and bring a corner up around
making a temporary night-caT
for his bald head.
This is a $500 Blanket.
You get them this week fol
$500 a pair.
Lots of other lots, but news.
paper space costs too much tc
advertise them.
Such bargains in Blankets
we have never seen, although
the Blanket business is a.
familiar to us as whisky to /;
Kentucky Democrat.
we'd locate it nearer home If we dared)
We have punched togethe
this batch of Blanket bargain
for jour benefit, not for ours
tor we are not eager to SCI
them before Fall.
dts mean, downright mean TO our fellow
tradesmen, for us TO sell Blankets at thes
prices, and before the other dealers can get
you; meaner than to rob a child ofits ehewin
gum and chew IL yourself But then lit will Civ
them enough 10 chew on when they see tn
Blanket bargains we are letting out this roast
Ing dog-days weather. IL not, they can chez
on their store-rent bills which they will fini
1hOuf y, los,